Remembering Socrates

Philosophical Essays

Edited by Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis

Description

Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates's thought 2,400 years after his death. The topics of the papers include Socratic method; the notion of definition; Socrates's intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the Euthyphro and Crito; and aspects of the later portrayal and reception of Socrates as a philosophical and ethical exemplar, by Plato, the Sceptics, and in the early Christian era. Contributors include Lesley Brown, David Charles, John Cooper, Michael Frede, Terence Irwin, Charles Kahn, Vassilis Karasmanis, Carlo Natali, Vasilis Politis, Dory Scaltsas, Gerhard Seel, and C. C. W. Taylor.

Remembering Socrates

Philosophical Essays

Edited by Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Socrates's dialectic in Xenophon's Memorabilia, Carlo Natali2. Socratic intellectualism in Xenophon and Plato, Gerhard Seel3. Socrates and hedonism, Charles Kahn4. Socrates and Euthyphro: the argument and its revival, Terence Irwin5. Did Socrates agree to obey the law of Athens?, Lesley Brown6. Aporia and searching in the early Plato, Vasilis Politis7. Types of definition in the Meno, David Charles8. Definition in Plato's Meno, Vassilis Karasmanis9. Sharing a property, Dory Scaltsas10. Socrates the Sophist, Christopher Taylor11. Arcesilaus: Socratic and Sceptic, John Cooper12. The early Christian reception of Socrates, Michael Frede